Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries 158
Several readers wrote in with a Wired story about the work Adobe is doing to detect photo forgery. They are working with Canon and Reuters (which suffered massive bad publicity last year over a doctored war photo) and a professor from Dartmouth. (Here is Reuters's policy on photo editing.) Adobe plans to produce a suite of photo-authentication tools based on the work of Hany Farid (PDF) for release in 2008.
Why not... (Score:4, Funny)
Forgeries? (Score:3, Funny)
The solution (Score:5, Funny)
I propose a TII licensing authority composed of Adobe, various camera manufacturers, Microsoft and Apple to arrange the NDAs and licenses. Obviously illegal legacy image editing tools like GIMP will be imported from non TII approved countries, but they must be seized under the DMCA and their owners sent to Gitmo.
Anti-photoshop? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:is all this really necessary? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Matching images to cameras (Score:4, Funny)